Proprietary #USB charging protocols are a fuck-you to USB Power Delivery and interoperability for consumers.

Using the USB-C connector but requiring "special" own-brand chargers is just to take advantage of a loophole in #EU consumer regulations.

#techtyranny #consumerrights

If the limit of your experience/knowledge of #AI is ChatGPT and its ilk, you are not qualified to dictate #AIpolicy at any level to anyone.

#techilliteracy #techtyranny #idiocracy

Technical requirements for #Malaysia websites and services (especially for government services):
- AI chatbot
- broken user account management/login
- insane password requirements from the 1990's.
- subcon and store everything in China
- make it an app

And the latest addition: BLOCKING password managers/generators to prevent secure industry-standard best practices.

#nationofcriminals #techilliteracy #techtyranny

#bigtech yanking away your ability to exist? I know the feeling.
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-abruptly-terminates-veracrypt-account-halting-windows-updates/

#microsoft #veracrypt #techtyranny

According to #AliExpress, the official outlet for #Heltec and #Lilygo, you cannot buy their private and secure off-grid radio boards unless you use Facebook/Telegram.

Order undelivered, refund denied, case closed.

I doubt they can even appreciate the irony of this asshole move.

#consumerrights #techtyranny #LoRa #privacy #offgrid

AI chatbot not working? Don't want to register an account/install apps/Facebook/Telegram?

Then fuck you! No rights for you.

#ecommerce #consumerrights #malaysia #nationofcriminals #techtyranny

I call bullshit on the government's claim that mandatory #DigitalID is to curb spam/scam calling.

Mandatory registration of phone numbers has already been the law for decades, using cryptographic signing with our MyKad.

But there is zero enforcement on the endless spam/scam calls going on every day. A black-box government "app" isn't going to fix anything.

Do not accept the barefaced LIES that revocation of our basic civic rights is somehow "necessary".

#Malaysia #techtyranny #privacy

"The combination of centralized telemetry, coercive adoption mandates, catastrophic historical governance failures, asymmetrical legal protections, and corporate entanglement creates an infrastructure primed for abuse."
https://blog.jaykayenn.net/your-identity-their-control/

#privacy #techtyranny #Malaysia #civilrights #digitalID